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The People’s Republic of China under President Xi Jinping is prioritising its Peripheral/Neighboring Diplomacy with Asia over the ‘new model of great power relations’ ('new type of Major Country Relations') with the United States of America (US). Peripheral or Neighboring Diplomacy is a relatively new development of Chinese foreign policy, and seeks to take the ‘China Dream’ beyond its borders to become an ‘Asia-Pacific Dream’ in which China seeks to build a ‘Community of Common Destiny’ within East Asia, and with a focus on Southeast Asia in particular.